The uncertainty of physick / Being a translation from the Spanish [of 'Teatro critico'] ... by E.D.

  • Benito Jerónimo Feijoo
Date:
1739
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    t Moft Learned, mod Skilful, mod Sin- cere, and moft Approved Physician in all his Majefty’s Dominions. Had almoft fuffer’d this little Trad to have made its way into this part of the world, and fhift for it felf, without any other protection than its own merit, for want of knowing a proper objedl to whom to recommend it, amongft thofe of the pro- fefllon it treats of. The pernicious, vulgariz’d, in¬ determinate phrafe of they fay is what has already introduc’d, and daily goes on, uihering more errors into the world than it’s pomble for truth to redtify to the end of it; and feeing there is no degree of literature, policy or mechanicks, that this boutefeu is not continually intruding it felf into: Happy would it be if a means could be found of banifhing it out of fociety, as the greateft pell that ever be¬ long’d to it •, being always endeavouring to lead people afide, and fee them together by the ears, or elfe plunge them headlong into pyirhonifm, the moft dangerous of all errors. It was this mifehievous makebate that involv’d me in fo much perplexity in the choice of a patron ; for, to fpeak the truth, I am fo little acquainted with the gentlemen of the profefiion of Phylick, that had I not luckily thought of you, as a perfon free from all exceptions, I muft have truftecl almoft wholly to they fay for a determination ^ which I could not eafily come into,
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